PoisonAlchemist: Man Muro, you boost my confidence and then you just go crush it with a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Pariah: Don't tell him things like that, if his head gets any bigger he'll float off like a weather ballon :p

Well, I appreciate it guys I really do. I had a similar storm of e-mails from some of my players, those that read e-mail that is.

And I have not banned myself from these forums. I have simply joined the multitude of other GMs here that are no longer active. But in spite of being a relic from the past, I shall endeavour not to tell all the young ones of my countless years of experience, just to display it in stark contrast to their lack of the same :p (Mwahahahaha, I had to say that, the voices in my head told me to!).

See? AG is still AG, though he is rarely around and though he just put his players on skiff and pushed them downstream, towards the waterfall! :p

Rather than retire perhaps you should try just gming less? (Gaming is a form of socializing, but way more fun)

Perhaps you should try to switch form campaigns to one shot games? (that last only 1-3 sessions)

From what you said you retired from gm and non one else wanted to step up and gm so you all split. From the sounds of this you still had the time to be a player, just not the extra time needed to gm prep in between gaming sessions.

One shot adventures can be just as rewarding as full length campaigns and take way less prep time, and allow you to try different stuff without worrying about killing a months/years long epic campaign. (also a tpk isn't such a big deal and you can let players have a larger variety of characters, even epic level ones if desired.)

Meh, there's an article sub in there somewhere I'll be writing the next time a have a spare hour; I'm sure you get what I'm saying.